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To: TigerClaws
Do they have any clue, the anger that would be unleashed? In 1968, when it got crazy, everyone wasn't armed. There wasn't technology to develop an immediate network of discontent. This isn't meant to be a threat, it's a real concern. The comfortable and confident middle class is losing its status. Take away their hope for a leader on their side, and what's the alternative?

Has it occurred to anyone that maybe Trump is smart enough to see where the unrest in the US was leading if someone doesn't turn it around?

I'm being philosophical here. How did our culture and nation deteriorate so badly in just 50 years? If it doesn't turn around, fast, we follow the path of every other country that's being reduced to rubble.

13 posted on 03/01/2016 11:39:18 AM PST by grania
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To: grania
“The comfortable and confident middle class is losing its status. Take away their hope for a leader on their side, and what's the alternative?”

Excellent point. And even though the Democrats claim to be for the middle class, they aren't. Obamacare, the IRS and taxes, a future carbon tax, more regulations, taxes and fees, a VAT, etc.

20 posted on 03/01/2016 11:44:19 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: grania
How did our culture and nation deteriorate so badly in just 50 years?

A substantial rejection of God in the public sector has a lot to do with it. He is not pleased, and we are paying a price.

41 posted on 03/01/2016 12:24:15 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: grania
How did our culture and nation deteriorate so badly in just 50 years?

It can't be "proven" but it sure fits...

Because I have called and you refused,
I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

Because you disdained all my counsel,
And would have none of my rebuke,

I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your terror comes,

When your terror comes like a storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.

(Proverbs: 24-27)

If you recall, 50 years ago in several landmark decisions the Supreme Court threw God out of the public schools and out of the public square. It has been downhill ever since for America, even though in some ways we continued upward for a bit because of our strong trajectory. But that is the point at which our culture and it's moral underpinnings really started to come apart. Think about it ...

66 posted on 03/01/2016 5:18:40 PM PST by Gritty (Syrians aren't Jews fleeing Nazi Holocaust but Nazis relocating from a bombed out Berlin-DGreenfield)
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